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Anacardiaceae
The Anacardiaceae, commonly known as the cashew family or sumac family, are a family of flowering plants, including about 83 genera with about 860 known species. Members of the Anacardiaceae bear fruits that are drupes and in some cases produce urushiol, an irritant. The Anacardiaceae include numerous genera, several of which are economically important, notably cashew (in the type genus Anacardium), mango, Chinese lacquer tree, yellow mombin, Peruvian pepper, sumac, smoke tree, marula, and cuachalalate. The genus Pistacia (which includes the pistachio and mastic tree) is now included, but was
Cotinus coggygria
species of plant
Cotinus
Cotinus (), the smoketree or smoke bush, is a genus of seven species of flowering plants in the family Anacardiaceae, closely related to the sumacs (Rhus).
Anacardioideae
Anacardioideae is a subfamily of plants in the family Anacardiaceae.
Abrahamia
Abrahamia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Anacardiaceae found in Madagascar.
Metopium toxiferum
species of plant
Myracrodruon urundeuva
species of plant
Cotinus obovatus
species of plant
Pachycormus discolor
species of plant
Metopium brownei
species of plant
Metopium
Metopium or poisonwood is a genus of flowering plants in the sumac family, Anacardiaceae. They are dioecious trees with poisonous sap that can induce contact dermatitis.
Antrocaryon
Antrocaryon is a genus of flowering plants in the cashew family, Anacardiaceae. The genus is disjunct between Tropical West Africa to Uganda (4 species) and northern Brazil (1 species).
Pleiogynium timoriense
species of tree in the family Anacardiaceae
Pseudospondias
Pseudospondias is a genus of plants in the subfamily Spondiadoideae of the cashew and sumac family Anacardiaceae. They grow as dioecious shrubs or trees and are found in forests of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Gluta usitata
species of plant
Smodingium argutum
Smodingium argutum, the African poison ivy or pain bush, is a southern African shrub or medium-sized tree in the Anacardiaceae, which has properties comparable to the American poison ivy, as its sap contains heptadecyl catechols that are toxic to the skin.
Drimycarpus
Drimycarpus is a small genus of trees in the cashew and sumac family Anacardiaceae. The generic name is from the Greek meaning "pungent fruit".
Solenocarpus
Solenocarpus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Anacardiaceae.
Comocladia
Comocladia is a genus of flowering plants in the cashew family, Anacardiaceae. It is native to the Americas, where it is distributed in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. Species are known commonly as maidenplums. The term guao is commonly used to refer to Comocladia species in Cuba and the Dominican Republic.
Amphipterygium adstringens
species of plant
Choerospondias
Choerospondias axillaris, known in English as the Nepali hog plum, is a tree in the family Anacardiaceae. It is the sole species in genus Choerospondias. It is native to the Himalayas, Indochina, southern and north-central China, Taiwan, and Japan. It is a common fruit in Nepal and Bhutan, which is called lapsi (लप्सी) in Nepali, aamli in Newar, and phrumchung in eastern Bhutan.
Amphipterygium
Amphipterygium is a small genus in the subfamily Anacardioideae of the cashew and sumac family Anacardiaceae.
Fegimanra
Fegimanra is a small genus of trees in the subfamily Anacardioideae of the cashew and sumac family Anacardiaceae. They grow naturally in west and west-central tropical Africa.
Pegia
Pegia is a genus of plants in the subfamily Spondiadoideae of the cashew and sumac family Anacardiaceae.
Pleiogynium
Pleiogynium is a genus of flowering plant of the family Anacardiaceae. It was defined by German botanist Adolf Engler in 1883. The Burdekin plum (P. timoriense) is a notable member. ==Species== Pleiogynium cerasiferum Pleiogynium hapalum Pleiogynium papuanum Pleiogynium solandri Pleiogynium timoriense
Myracrodruon
Myracrodruon is a genus of plants in the family Anacardiaceae. Species are native to South America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay).
Pseudosmodingium
Pseudosmodingium is a genus of plants in the subfamily Anacardioideae of the cashew and sumac family (Anacardiaceae) endemic to Mexico.
Blepharocarya
Blepharocarya is a genus of trees from northern Australia, in the family Anacardiaceae. They are dioecious trees with opposite leaves, a trait rather unusual within the Anacardiaceae.
Heeria argentea
species of plant
Dobinea
Dobinea is a small genus of plants in the subfamily Anacardioideae of the cashew and sumac family Anacardiaceae. The species are dioecious and grow as shrubs or perennial herbs. They grow naturally in the East Himalaya region and China.
Comocladia dodonaea
species of plant
Harpephyllum
Harpephyllum is a genus of trees in the family Anacardiaceae (the cashew and mango family). The sole species is Harpephyllum afrum, a dioecious evergreen species from South Africa and Mozambique that is also cultivated. The fruit is edible.
Baronia taratana
species of plant
Micronychia
genus of plants
Heeria
genus of plants
Blepharocarya involucrigera
species of flowering plant
Haematostaphis
Haematostaphis barteri is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Anacardiaceae. It is a tree which ranges from western Tropical Africa to Sudan. It is the sole species in genus Haematostaphis.
Actinocheita
Actinocheita filicina, commonly known as palo tostado, is a plant species in the family Anacardiaceae, and the only living representative of the monotypic genus Actinocheita.
Androtium
Androtium is a monotypic genus of trees in the cashew or sumac family Anacardiaceae. It contains the single species Androtium astylum. The generic name ' is from the Greek meaning "male ear-lobe", referring to the shape of the lobe of the stamen. The specific epithet ' is from the Latin meaning "without style", referring to the plant's ovary.
Baronia
genus of plants
Koordersiodendron
Koordersiodendron is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Anacardiaceae. It only contains one known species, Koordersiodendron pinnatum
Loxostylis
Loxostylis is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Anacardiaceae.
Allospondias
Allospondias is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Anacardiaceae.
Orthopterygium huaucui
Orthopterygium is a monotypic genus of dioecious plants in the subfamily Anacardioideae of the cashew and sumac family Anacardiaceae. It contains the single species Orthopterygium huaucui, which is endemic to western Peru.
Pseudosmodingium andrieuxii
species of plant
Ochoterenaea
Ochoterenaea is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Anacardiaceae. The only species is Ochoterenaea colombiana.
Haplorhus
Haplorhus is a genus of plants in the family Anacardiaceae. Haplorhus peruviana is the only species in the genus. It is found in dry ravines located in Chile and Peru.
Abrahamia buxifolia
species of plant
Laurophyllus
Laurophyllus is a monotypic genus of dioecious shrubs in the subfamily Anacardioideae of the cashew and sumac family Anacardiaceae. It contains the single species Laurophyllus capensis, which is endemic to the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The species is found on wooded hillsides and by streams.
Drimycarpus maximus
species of plant
Gluta laccifera
species of plant
Mosquitoxylum
Mosquitoxylum is a monotypic genus of trees in the subfamily Anacardioideae of the family Anacardiaceae. It contains the single species Mosquitoxylum jamaicense, native to an area from southern Mexico to Ecuador and also to Jamaica.
Drimycarpus luridus
species of plant
Poupartiopsis
Poupartiopsis is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Anacardiaceae. The only species is Poupartiopsis spondiocarpus.
Pseudosmodingium virletii
species of plant
Myracrodruon balansae
species of plant
Spondiadoideae
Spondiadoideae is a plant subfamily in the cashew and sumac family Anacardiaceae.